Most annoying MOD, auto kick a player when server is 23/24
Mango
Join Date: 2012-10-11 Member: 162061Members
Join Date: 2012-10-11 Member: 162061Members
<div class="IPBDescription">So, Admin can enter server.</div>At first I thought it was a admin who was just kicking me when I enter the server. After discussion from other aliens they told me there war stories too. It seems there is a MOD that will kick any player who tries to enter the server when it is one spot left to be full. I could be wrong someone else told me it is a bug from one of the MODS. But, if it is what I think it is this has to be blocked because I find it annoying and I know others feel my same concern.
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Vary much this!
It is really annoying to guess whether it is a server with a reserved slot or you really can join. It turns the server selection into a gamble.
The server's I've seen doing it have been updating the name of the server to indicate what's happening...
There's several problems interacting here.
A: There really should be a "reason" field that is displayed to players when they are kicked. Right now it's confusing because if you weren't looking, or were muted or something, you may have no idea why you were kicked (if you were kicked for doing something wrong) or if it was just an auto kick like this plugin does.
B: The tendency of all servers to have an even number of slots. In NS1 the servers that did this generally had an odd number of slots. If you saw a server with 17 slots, you could usually assume the odd slot was a reserved slot. As I understand it, most of the server providing companies simply will not provide odd numbered slotted servers. Server ops are doing this because they kind of have to.
C: Ideally reserved slot systems could be done without an "empty" slot. UWE should have a system in place so if I click "join" a server the server is notified that I am waiting for a slot. If the server had access to a list of players waiting to get in, it could choose to order the list a certain way (depending on who it prefers the first slot) and then, if appropriate, choose to kick a player to open a slot for a "preferred" player. Because servers are unaware of who is trying to join them, no system like this is currently in place. It would be really nice if servers had more control over the queuing system as opposed from some external entity always overriding the server.
Effectively, most of this stuff is holdover from the way things were done in halflife/steam. Many of these things could be updated if UWE wanted them to, many of them still probably will, but for now, this is the system that we're stuck with.
Complaining about a post while doing it yourself as well as an example, where does this one rank on the annoyance scale? And where does my post scale, what with pointing out the thing you did about the thing that happened :P
This thread is now about grammar and shame.
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Was it something I said :P
Also @topic, this is indeed really up to the admins of the servers. The reserved slot thingy should probably be reworked a bit if at all possible to show 22p server with 2 hidden slots?
I think the issue is that UWE have not exposed enough of the game to allow modders to do reserved slots without resorting to these methods.
What the real issue is that we server admins can not serve you users a message explaining what is going on and how to prevent it by ordering reserved slots. You will get the message in console but this is not as user friendly as an actual popup box saying why you were kicked.